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ALEKS PPL empowers students to be prepared and successful in their proper math course, expediting their path to completion.
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Evaluating Math Placement
Best Practices
A student’s path to graduation begin with accurate course placement. How can institutions design a math placement approach that supports student retention, promotes equity, and creates value? This whitepaper evaluates emerging placement initiatives and their effectiveness in expediting degree completion.
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Efficacy and Case Studies
Utah Valley University
ALEKS PPL has saved students approximately $1,000,000 in tuition by helping them to skip math courses that would otherwise have impeded their academic track.
UVU uses ALEKS PPL for all students and also offers a guided placement preparation 1 credit hour course taught by full-time faculty.
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Iowa Central Community College
Iowa Central increases STEM enrollments by 21% and also sees a correlation to overall course success rates with ALEKS PPL.
Prior to ALEKS PPL, College Algebra courses had a success rate of 34% and now with the accuracy of PPL, success rates are at 74%. Non-traditional students are also succeeding at higher rates.
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University of Kentucky
The Prep and Learning Modules in ALEKS PPL help students accelerate their course sequence where only 11% of students need developmental math, compared to 20% prior.
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Harper College
Harper students using ALEKS PPL are 22.5% more likely to return next term.
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Oklahoma State University
Overall DFW rates decrease by 15% after implementing PPL and by 10% for Calculus.
Oklahoma State has also used the diagnostics to inform which topics are critical to review in Calculus as well.
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California State Univ - Long Beach
With ALEKS PPL, Early Start Math students save at least one semester of developmental math and increase throughput by 37.5%.
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City College of San Francisco
In 2017, Latinx Summer Bridge students using PPL beat the average course success rate for new students and had a 12% increase in success rates compared to all Latinx students in Math.
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Research and Efficacy
Independent research validates the mission of ALEKS PPL to improve student success in math and beyond.